Boing Boing asked Jake Adelstein, a crime beat reporter in Japan, to ask the Yakuza to review the video game Yakuza 3.

S: You got your salaryman in there, the delinquent school girl and her sugar daddy, Chinese people, and even those Nigerian touts. What’s with all the fucking gaijin (foreigners) in the area anyway? It used to be just Japanese, Koreans and Chinese.

JavaScript Blacklist is a simple extension for Safari 5 which blacklists scripts from a configurable list of domains. If a common “utility” script used by sites that you visit is annoying you, this will let you opt out quickly and easily.

Gruber linked to this a couple of months ago, but it was kinda crashy at the time. Seems to work fine now with Safari 5.0.1. The plugin comes pre-configured to block several particularly annoying sites:

Originally published in Esquire magazine in October 1971, this long but utterly riveting article describes “phone phreaking” — what we now call “hacking”, but applied to telephone lines. I wonder if, in 40 years, people will find computer/internet hacking just as fascinating and outdated.

(Apparently, Jobs and Woz were big on phone phreaking before they founded Apple.)